BI ArticleReconciliation Part 1 - What is Reconciliation?
Reconciliation is seen as the ultimate goal of peacebuilding, in which parties re-establish relationships and attempt to move beyond the past.
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Civic Knowledge and Skills That We All Need to Constructively Handle Intractable Conflict
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Reconciliation Part 1 - What is Reconciliation?
Reconciliation is seen as the ultimate goal of peacebuilding, in which parties re-establish relationships and attempt to move beyond the past.
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Reconciliation Part 2 -Making Reconciliation Happen
Pursuing truth, accountability, apology, and structural and policy changes all contribute to reconciliation.
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Ingredients of Reconciliation
A discussion of what is needed to create reconciliation.
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Reconciliation as a Noun and a Verb (Outcome and Process)
This video explains how reconciliation is both an outcome and the processes used to reach that outcome.
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Complexity-Oriented, Massively Parallel Reconciliation
This video applies the notions of complexity and "massively-parallel peacebuilding" to the concept of reconciliation.
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Reconciliation Index
An exercise designed to imagine what "reconciliation" would look like in a conflictual society--and how to get there.
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Prospective Reconciliation
Prospective reconciliation involves looking ahead to figure out how conflicting groups can successfully live together in the future.
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Build and Repair Relationships
Society, as well as smaller assemblies of people, are built on relationships. When relationships are loving, respectful, friendly, and trusting, conflicts can usually be resolved without great difficulty. When relationships break down, or never existed, conflict resolution and problem solving becomes much more difficult. So an early step in dealing effectively with intractable conflicts is strengthening the relationship between the disputants.
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Retrospective Reconciliation
Unlike prospective reconciliation, which looks forward, retrospective reconciliation looks backwards, using a balanced strategy for coming to terms with past wrongs. Truth and reconciliation commissions, apologies, remediation, and forgiveness are usually aspects of retrospective reconciliation.
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Trauma Healing
Intractable conflicts often result in deep trauma, which must be healed if the conflict is to be resolved. There are many techniques that are used: relational and community-based approaches such as group therapy, restorative justice or truth-telling processes, cultural healing practices; expressive and creative techniques such as art, music, or drama therapy, writing or journaling; among other psychological and therapeutic techniques.